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And once again he brought Gaveston home, and heaped upon him all the riches and titles of which the Barons had deprived him. The Lords saw, now, that there was nothing for it but to put the favourite to death. They could have done so, legally, according to the terms of his banishment; but they did so, I am sorry to say, in a shabby manner.

And we perceive in ourselves an advantage which they lack, but in which some of them the beings deprived of reason cannot absolutely share, and in which the others, such as children, can only one day have a share by following our way.

Thus, my poor friend, immured by her brother till the age of twenty-two in a convent, then sacrificed three years to a husband of a disagreeable temper and unsuitable age, is now deprived of the first liberty she ever enjoyed, and is made answerable for the conduct of a man over whom she has no sort of influence.

He imagined that he felt her heart throb against his own breast, and had surrendered himself to the hope that it was newly awakened love for him which had deprived her of her calm bearing. True, she had refused his company on the way home, but this was probably because she was afraid of being gossipped about in connection with him.

The troops are here in the interest of good government, by constituted authority, to enforce the law and put down riots." "Just who had a hand in throwing the tea overboard no one can find out, but I am glad it was done," said Tom. "So you uphold lawlessness, Mr. Brandon?" "I stand against the unrighteous acts of Parliament. We will not be slaves; we will not be deprived of our liberties.

"Just what I say: deprived of my privileges for cutting chapel." "It's a shame!" said Georgie, indignantly. "That Self-Government Committee is going a little too far when it takes a senior's privileges away without even hearing her case." She grasped Patty by the arm and started toward the door. "Come on and tell Cathy Fair about it. She will fix it all right."

The king, overwhelmed with astonishment, was irresolute in action; but Lady Castlemaine, determined on not being deprived of her anticipated triumph, took him by the hand and forcibly pulled him towards Miss Stuart's apartments.

Beholding the heroic Karna thrown down stretched on the earth, pierced with arrows and bathed in blood, the king of the Madras, went away on that car deprived of its standard. After the fall of Karna, the Kauravas, deeply pierced with shafts in that battle, and afflicted with fear, fled away from the field, frequently casting their eyes on that lofty standard of Arjuna that blazed with splendour.

When your eternal light arose in my soul, how perfectly it reconciled me and made you the object of my love! From the moment I received Thee I have never been free from the cross, nor it seems without prayer though for a long time I thought myself deprived thereof, which exceedingly augmented my afflictions.

He was silent and thoughtful, and even seemed pained, and she wondered if it were possible that one, who certainly lived in a style to prove that his income was large, could be so thoughtless as to have deprived himself of the means of doing that which he so evidently desired to do.